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Possibly introduce light clients into the `hop-node` distribution for same-machine RPC calls #576

Open shanefontaine opened 9 months ago

shanefontaine commented 9 months ago

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It is not clear that this is a practical solution. Light clients may (1) be too difficult to run, (2) might not provide the information I think they do, or (3) might actually make network calls, all of which would defeat the purpose. Understand those points above prior to implementation.

Assuming network latency is the bonder's limiting factor, the goal of this card would

Can we package a light-client in the bonder client for faster processing. We would still use full node for validation and mission critical stuff